Hidden champion Lanzarote? A guide to the Canary Islands

Detlef Berg, 22.04.2022

Probably nowhere else in Europe do fire, water, earth and air collide more intensively than on Lanzarote. The extremes attract thousands of visitors every year. A guide to the hotspots.

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The fourth-largest of the Canary Islands is far less like the usual picture-postcard idyll of a vacation island, and with its black, rugged lava fields it looks downright hostile. And yet Lanzarote attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors year after year. Many stay in the hotel towns in the south of the island with their sandy beaches, some of which are artificially kept up. But Lanzarote is much too good for a pure "hotel beach vacation". Therefore, we present a few attractions beyond the beach, and yes, a visit to Lanzarote is definitely worthwhile.

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